PETR UHL 77, the Czechoslovak civil rights movement, was sentenced to five years in prison last October despite protests by Communists, socialists, and trade unionists from around the world. crime was to defend the democratic rights supposedly guaranteed in the Czechoslovak constitution, Although Czechoslovakia's Law on Imprisonment states that the prison conditions should be 'humane', Uhl is being held under circumstances that amount to a calculated attempt to destroy nim..
Confined at the notorious strict regime labour camp at Mirov, Uhl is not allowed to keep any written materialnot letters from his family, regulations.. He is also ban ned from keeping pictures of his wife and children..
Uhl is allowed only one-hour visit from a close relative every six lo digill. His only months, and that meeting must be supervised by guards, and nothing but family matters discussed.
Because of the extremely heavy work to which he is subjected, his chronic bronchitis has become acute.. Uhl is forced to carry loads weighing as much as eighty-six pounds up sixty-seven steps.
Defenders of Uhl and the other Charter 77 political prisoners are asking that protests against these conditions be sent to Czechoslovak embassies.. Cuba and Ethiopia DEFENCE COMMITTEES In response to Washington's hard. line stance, the Afghan regime has taken limited measures inside the country to step up detence against the counterrevolution.
The Karmal government has established armed militia units in Kabul and other cities and towns. A report in the March 30 Washington Post described them as "an adaptation of the Defence of the Revolution Committees set up in A commission has been set up to study proposals for a second phase' of the land reform programme. New peasant formations, called Democratic Peasants' Unions, have been established in various parts of the country. Trade unions have also been ex. tended. Although the working
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